Citizens Military Training Camp - Full Pack Yearbook (Fort Leavenworth, KS)

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..-W A .. ,g- ., .. .,,---- , - A 1 .- 4 -- -1. SEVEN YEARS OF THE CMTC TO THE VICTORS are offered rewards in many kinds of military and athletic contests. ' s The daily program has been successfully evolved in these seven years to meet the purpose ofthe camps and the capacity of the men enrolled. These are for the larger part in the first year, or Basic Course, Where the instruction is limited to the Infantry. An increasing percentage each year is returning for the succeeding courses, the Red, the White and the Blue, in the first of Which the young men may continue the Infantry Work or elect to enter and thereafter remain in the Cavalry or Artillery CField or Coastj. In some camps there is instruction by the Signal Corps and it is likely that presently ,there may be elementary teaching in at least the theoretical bases of Aviation. Enrollment in the if CMTC does not carry any military obligation, but the best graduates are reckoned eligible to be examined for commissions in the Urganized Reserves, some compete for appointment to the United States Military Academy and many enlist later in the National Guard. All camps are under a military discipline, considerate but effective which has its outcome in a sense of law and order and a prompt obedience to recognized authority General Pershing has noted also that the men grow more aggressive, more confident, they get the spirit of leadershlp and initiative and in every Way become better able to meet the problems of everyday life Character building is thus a definite contribution oficamp training. It is coupled with a better feeling of citizenship Which emerges not so much out of the few hours given to teaching the basic factsand principles of life in our democracy as out of the entire life of the A GREEK STATUE OF TODAY A SOMETHING NEW MARKS EVERY DAY AT CAMP Page Nineteen v v vv vv vvv vvvwvvv vvvvvv vvvvvv 3 . Cl . 7 7 . . . . . N , 7 , , . . I . . , 1 i v ' YAY. 41. minimis s 474 u AY. Q 1 .UAW n A 4 0 n 4707415 nVaVaVo A Q . A 5 . . ,

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SEVEN YEARS OF THE CMTC highly appreciated and effective tw than parents are apt to think. Experienced hostesses guide the social life and make an atmosphere of home in the attractive houses which are available for social pur- poses at all camps. Strictlv military training is confined almost entirely to the morning hours. The even- ings are given to various forms of indoor recreation lectures, dances, concerts and moving pictures, inter- spersed with boxing bouts and other forms of entertainment devised and conducted by the men themselves through their own debating clubs Jazz bands. orchestras or dramatic ESTOUPS A HAPPY HOUR The afternoons are in many ways the most enjoyable part of the opportunity for swimming, in ocean, lake or river or in large tanks adequate and hygienic, supplied by the War Department. Track work is universal' baseball football and volley- ball are popular, tennis boxing wrestling and fencing have their votaries Each candidate makes choice of his favorite sport and is given expert coaching. Unfortunately Congress has never recognized the expenses incident to this important phase of camp life Good provision is made for the strictly military needs of the CMTC but little money is given for the equally important equipment indispensable to various outdoor games of the daily schedule. In the preparation of the camps not much is done for the playing fields This year for a typical camp the Government allowance for all athletic purposes was a trifle more than one cent per day for each candidate, hardly enough to pay for the gasoline and lime needed for rolling and for marking the many acres devoted to the outdoor games ofthe young men enrolled. Doubtless Congress will presently be more generous,but meantime the camps would greatly suffer were it not for private donations toward athletic equipment and re- creation. Many communities have taken pride in making more at- tractive the life at the nearest training center. Civilian Aides and local chairmen of the Military Training Camps Association have helped to organize committees for local entertainment, for baseball games boat rides and evening dances for the supply of addi- tional athletic equipment and for medals pennants and prizes for both military and athletic con- tests. The interest of citizens in Citizens Camps manifested in so many ways has thus been an important element in their success. Seven has always been a mys- . TOUCHDOWN?-He may make it! ff l f r B . 1' - l i ' 7 t 1 7 thirty days. They are devoted to a great variety of outdoor games. Every camp gives I 0 7 F 7 0 , i 0 7 7 ' 7 , . 7 7 7 7 7 7 Page' Twenty-one v v v v .v'.'. ' V Y' Q 'VVVV 'UVVVV11VYUV.V4YnVm'.14VvV4V YA V11 o A Q Q 4 A n 1 - O U